I agree she has ways of knowing Palps by the time she meets him, but I'd disagree on it being more likely she knows him than Kirk knowing Khan. Record keeping in Star Trek is a lot stricter, and Kirk is academy-educated and grew up in wealth.
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Replying to @chton @roryleahy and
The whole history of the planet she lives on was determined by the Civil War between the Rebels and the Empire, and the Empire was a despotic government completely centered on Palpatine
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chton and
It would be extremely weird for her to have no idea who he was when she lives in the shadow of an Imperial Star Destroyer and her whole living is scavenging Imperial tech
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chton and
Really the issue here is the reverse - the AUDIENCE is much less familiar with the name "Palpatine" based on the onscreen content of the movies than the characters logically should be The name isn't spoken at all in the OT, because Lucas irl hadn't settled on the details
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chton and
IIRC it's in the novelization of the original SW, the one he actually wrote, which I had as a kid. It's in a short prologue page that sets the stage (also indicates he was a weak politician influenced by corrupt advisors, so definitely before he hashed the mastermind stuff out)
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Replying to @Sarcasmorator @arthur_affect and
Yeah was gonna say I grew up in the 80s and 90s knowing the Emperor's name was Palpatine long before the prequels but that was because I was an ubernerd
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Replying to @roryleahy @arthur_affect and
I don't remember there being anything about the EMPEROR being a Sith Lord until the prequel movies though, even once I knew that Vader was. There was no rule of two pre-1999. The emperor was an evil force user who corrupted Vader; Vader was the Sith lord
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Replying to @Sarcasmorator @roryleahy and
There was briefly an idea to make the "Sith" be this servile species of fanatical cultists whom Vader, a human, had personally conquered and made into his own army, hence him being "the Dark Lord of the Sith" This was later worked into the EU with the species renamed the Noghri
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Sarcasmorator and
And nucanon with the Knights of Ren who are clearly a servile species which Kylo has subjugated :P
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Sarcasmorator and
I kind of like the idea now that "Kylo Ren" is a title that means "Leader of the Knights of Ren" and when Ben Solo gives it up that technically means it's up for grabs
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The title of Kylo Ren then rapidly gets inherited by each of the remaining Knights of Ren and passed down in order of seniority as Ben kills them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
For some reason that reminds me of the Kids Next Door episode where they choose the Supreme Leader through a game of tag, because none of the kids actually want to deal with being in charge.
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